Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Picketline disorder eventually spilled over into mining communities , which became the sites of major disturbances . |
| 2 | The relationship between Government educationists and villagers was a political one , and created the seeds of resentment and conflict that eventually spilled over in 1979 with the overthrow of the Shah . |
| 3 | The full-time farms surveyed were mostly given over to grass and were on the higher ground . |
| 4 | The Cult of Pleasure is revealed as being secretly given over to the worship of Slaanesh . |
| 5 | This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees . |
| 6 | Nicola sat down on the floor and slowly rolled over on to her back . |
| 7 | But she tones down her performance as the show progresses and one is eventually won over . |
| 8 | The partnership was successfully liquidated over a period of years and it was left to John Baring to rebuild the business in the form of a limited company . |
| 9 | Mostly frozen over . |
| 10 | Much of the meeting was apparently given over to the specific role X/Open will play . |
| 11 | Much of the meeting was apparently given over to the specific role that X/Open will play . |
| 12 | His whole soul had been so given over to dreams of leaving Loxford recently that he was startled to think his father might share them . |
| 13 | The differences were only patched over when ministers heard during the meeting that Baker and Aziz would meet . |
| 14 | Admittedly , the weather was worse , English fortunes were at a low ebb , and the higher charges may well have deterred many people , especially the Caribbean fans ; but one suspects that some thousands of people simply could not face the prospect of yet another day almost entirely given over to fast bowling . |
| 15 | A distinction must also be made between agroforestry and plantation forestry ; the former involves the integration of silviculture with agricultural systems while the latter is entirely given over to timber production . |
| 16 | Lucie 's thoughts were entirely given over to the pain in his chest ; he was overrun with pain . |
| 17 | Sitting on the ground was Terry Porter who 'd apparently fallen over and cut his knee quite badly . |
| 18 | The West Germans objected strongly but it was all smoothed over and so they will have a trio of Internazionale players — Matthaus , Klinsmann and Brehme — starting the World Cup on their home ground while Belgium , who at one stage were being threatened with Sicily , are at least promised the occasional cooling breeze in Verona . |
| 19 | The West Germans objected strongly but it was all smoothed over and so they will have a trio of Internazionale players — Matthaus , Klinsmann and Brehme — starting the World Cup on their home ground while Belgium , who at one stage were being threatened with Sicily , are at least promised the occasional cooling breeze in Verona . |
| 20 | I think I 'd better come over and see what material you are intending to work with . ’ |
| 21 | So I rang the midwife again , who decided she 'd better come over after all . |
| 22 | But the woman merely rolled over and sat up , easing the jacket from her , calm now , the fit — if that was what it had been — gone from her . |
| 23 | One part-time farmer was killed when struck by a falling tree during a storm while a forestry worker died after a section of a felled tree trunk apparently rolled over as he attempted to handle it . |
| 24 | There 's a great deal of double counting that takes place , it might be that some honourable members in this house actually appear upon two registers , one in London and one within the area in which they reside , normally within their constituency and many people are merely carried over from past registers , without any serious canvassing taking place to find out whether they are the people to be on the registers or whether someone else should be put in their place . |
| 25 | The local rubbish-tip near the roadside is constantly picked over by gulls , starlings , crows and ravens . |
| 26 | Among those I met or saw were the Begum Aga Khan , who was with her very attractive daughter Princess Zahra Aga Khan ; the Director General of the British Equestrian Foundation Major Malcolm Wallace , two of our top Event riders Miss Karen Straker and Mrs Jane Thelwall ; and Mr Andrew Dixon , who had all come over from England with the Hermès party ; Mr Peter Laing , the Hon. |
| 27 | Clive Allen missed one great chance six minutes before half-time when his snap shot from inside the box , following a superb pass by Julian Dicks , was brilliantly tipped over by Bees ' keeper Graham Benstead . |
| 28 | And they almost went in front on eight minutes , Michael Surgeon beating the Comrades ' off-side trap only to see his well struck 20-yard drive brilliantly tipped over by 'keeper George Cathcart . |
| 29 | Some sociologists have researched ‘ counter school ’ youth cultures , and how they are naturally carried over onto the shopfloor . |
| 30 | Even the tiles concurred , for now the arrows had all flipped over and were pointing at him , pointing out the guilty party , the incompetent official , the unworthy son . |